“I was howling with fear. I was shaking with terror”

Liubov Bielukha lost her in-laws in Mariupol, and her mother in Berdiansk after leaving the occupation.

“I counted six bombs. It’s impossible to describe. People are running to the basements. I understand that my mother-in-law will freeze alone in the house. We were in the basement for three days. We could not come out. The fear is not of death, but of what you hear upstairs. I understood that my mother-in-law was freezing. She was 90 years old. She was bedridden.

I was howling with fear. I was shaking with terror. My heart was breaking. March 15. A neighbour’s house is on fire. A shell hit my mother-in-law’s house. The building caught fire. I realised that was it,” said Liubov, a resident of Mariupol.